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The dazzling second book in Bakker’s
“exquisitely intelligent and beautifully written”
(Steven Erikson) saga
Praised by readers and critics around the world, R. Scott
Bakker has become one of the most celebrated voices
in fantasy fiction. The Aspect-Emperor trilogy follows
on from the acclaimed Prince of Nothing saga, and The
White-Luck Warrior is the chilling second book in the new
series. Ruler Anasûrimbor Kellhus and his Great Ordeal
march ever farther into the Ancient North, as his consort
Esmenet finds herself at war. Exiled wizard Achamian,
meanwhile, leads his own ragtag mission to the legendary
ruins of Sauglish. Into this tumult walks the White-Luck
Warrior, assassin and messiah both . . .
In this ambitious volume, Bakker delves even further
into his richly imagined universe of myth, violence, and
sorcery.
Praise for the work of R. Scott Bakker:
“A fine example of the new anti-epic fiction
at its best . . . This is one of the more
brilliant pieces of writing that you’re liable
to read for a long time.”
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“Bakker has been praised by fans and
critics around the world for his thoughtful,
complex and meticulously detailed world,
his colorful and credible characters, and
his deviously intriguing, action-packed
plotting.” —Globe and Mail
“One of the major-league fantasy releases
of 2011, the highly awaited The White-
Luck Warrior by Scott Bakker . . . Nobody
can deny the powerful nature of those
books . . . Overall [Bakker’s books have]
enriched the potential of the fantasy
genre quite a lot.” —Fantasy Book Critic
There is no name for this war; men cannot reference what transcends the short interval of
their comprehension. It began when they were little more than savages roaming the wilds,
in an age before script or bronze. An Ark, vast and golden, toppled from the void, scorching
the horizon, throwing up a ring of mountains with the violence of its descent. And from it
crawled the dread and monstrous Inchoroi, a race who had come to seal the World against
the Heavens and so save the obscenities they called their souls.
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